Abstract：As the outstanding leader in the Late Ming literary world, Wang Shizhen was a high achiever in literary theory. In fact, his artistic views, which cover all the important artistic fields in the Late Ming Dynasty, like poetry, drama, novel, calligraphy and painting, manifested in-depth creativity and authority, and aided by his status as literary leader and his keen sight, led and influenced the then theoretical construction and literary creation. His patronizing of new writers was especially shown in the creation of the then most outstanding dramatic works. In effect, even the writing and publication of Compendium of Materia Medica was related to him. So, there would be no advanced literary thoughts in the Late Ming Dynasty without him!
周锡山. 杰出的晚明文坛领袖王世贞及其文艺观述论[J]. 江苏大学学报（社会科学版）, 2017, 19(4): 78-85.
ZHOU Xi-Shan. The Artistic View of Wang Shizhen, the Outstanding Literary Leader in the Late Ming Dynasty. Journal of Jiangsu University（Social Science Editi, 2017, 19(4): 78-85.
2017, Vol. 19 
